Jupyter Community Call

January 26th, 2021

Date: January 26, 2021, at 9am Pacific (your timezone)

Discourse

YouTube Link

Please note:

• Community calls are recorded and posted to this playlist

• These notes will be recorded and posted here

• Everyone present is held to the Jupyter Code of Conduct

Purpose

Think of it as a monthly, virtual JupyterCon. It’s a place to announce and share fun things happening in the Jupyter community.

For more discussion on the format of these calls, see the thread here.

Short reports, celebrations, shout-outs

This is a place to make short announcements (without a need for discussion).

• Frédéric Collonval To improve visibility and group volunteer time on maintenance of popular JupyterLab extensions, a unofficial GitHub organization has been created: jupyterlab-contrib.

• Isabela Presedo-Floyd In case you missed it, JupyterLab 3.0 is out! Congrats to the community and thanks for all the hard work that went into this release.

• Isabela Presedo-Floyd I’ve seen a resurgence of community interest in making multiple Jupyter projects accessible. This is awesome! We also have a group of people meeting every other week to coordinate JupyterLab accessibility work (and talk about accessibility in general) that you can join from the community calendar.

• Layne Sadler Plotly updated jupyter-dash labextension for 3.0 and vows to prebuild. issue

Agenda Items

• Nick Bollweg jupyterlab-lsp 3.2 on pypi & conda-forge. JupyterLab :three:. :eight: Language Client features. Ju(lia)+Py(thon)+R Language Servers+Kernel+Notebook, plus more. Pre-JEP Issue to move towards an official sub-project 🚀.

• Nick Bollweg (or someone better :muscle:) JupyterLab 2.3.0rc0 is a performance-focused prerelease, on pypi/conda-forge, these features will land in 3.1. Ready for testing!

• Frédéric Collonval: Leverage JupyterLab modularity to customize the UI with a alternative launcher and a cell toolbar - demonstrate easier distribution thanks to JLab3.

• Corentin Cadiou: presentation of ipysphaghetti (name not settled yet) a JLab (3+) extension implementing a node-based approach to interact with your data.

• Thorin Tabor: Notebook Projects, a mechanism for encapsulating multiple user environments in a JupyterHub instance

Other Links Shared

• Take the Jupyter survey!

• some nteract links after @raman’s pre-demo:

  • https://docs.nteract.io/getting-started-with-nteract/

  • https://github.com/nteract/nteract

• semi-related “instant-on” compute/notebooks

  • jyve, static JupyterLab build

  • pyodide, full CPython in the browser

• hackmd’s FOSS flavor is now HedgeDoc

  • we need a Hub/Lab Extension :hedgehog:

• “run cells with tags”

  • from cell-toolbar demo

  • could this be supported in multiple clients, e.g. JupyterLab Notebook UI and nbclient/nbconvert CLI

• workflows with (some) Jupyter integration

  • cylc

  • dask

  • dagster (binder)

  • openmdao

  • prefect

• GenePattern and GenePatternNotebook

• Integrative Genetics Viewer and their Jupyter extension

Q/A

As a company, how do we start contributing?

• @willingc follow the projects that seem most within your team’s wheelhouse

  • Visit the Jupyter Discourse and community calendar!

• @jasongrout JupyterLab 4.0 release plans are underway. There may be items there, or things you want to contribute.

  • translations always welcome! Check CrowdIn for more info.

  • corporate guidance

  • team compass is where many of these larger discussions may happen.

• @jupyter/notebook is very starved for resources

  • has a weekly meeting just trying to keep the issue count down.

    • many are low-touch to at least get triaged

  • really any help welcome

• @isabela-pf accessibility on all projects.

  • We have been starting with JupyterLab Components, etc. Notes for our meetings and all current team work live in this issue

  • And documentation in pydata-sphinx-theme (upstream of jupyter-book, etc.)

What would you like to see in community calls?

• Overview of JupterLab 3

Attendees

Name	Institution	GitHub Handle
Ross Stokoe	Refinitiv	@RR11WK
Julien Hoarau	Refinitiv	@julienhoarau
Greg Olmstead	Refinitiv	@maynardflies
Josias De Lima	Refinitiv	@JoshDL
Loic Huder	ESRF	@loichuder
Thorin Tabor	UCSD	@tmtabor
Gonzalo Gasca Meza	Google	@gogasca
Frédéric Collonval	ARIADNEXT	@fcollonval
Layne Sadler	free agent	@aiqc
Corentin Cadiou	University College London	@cphyc
Nick Bollweg	Proj. Jupyter, GTRI, Deathbeds	@bollwyvl @nrbgt @deathbeds
Wayne Decatur	Upstate Medical Universtity	@fomightez
Zach Sailer	Apple	@Zsailer
Simon Li	University of Dundee	@manics
Raman Tehlan	nteract, StockGro	@ramantehlan
Pete Blois	Google Colab	@blois
Ryan Spencer	GTRI	@ryspnc
A. T. Darian	Two Sigma	@afshin
Carol Willing	Noteable / Jupyter	@willingc
Karla Spuldaro	IBM	@karlaspuldaro
Martha Cryan	IBM	@marthacryan
Isabela Presedo-Floyd	Quansight Labs	@isabela-pf